{"id":35019,"date":"2005-12-22T23:38:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/12\/22\/china-southern-to-spend-us134-million-in-beijing\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T15:38:05","slug":"china-southern-to-spend-us134-million-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/12\/22\/35019\/","title":{"rendered":"China Southern To Spend US$134 Million In Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/chinasouthern_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">China Southern Airlines is planning to spend more than US$134 million to upgrade its operations, including a new International terminal for its Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner, at Beijing Capital Airport.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>China Southern Airlines plans to use this new terminal to base its recently-ordered Airbus A380 aircraft and Boeing 787 Dreamliners, scheduled for delivery in late 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of the Beijing branch is crucial for China Southern's sustained development, said Liu Shaoyong, Chairman, China Southern Airlines. He added, Now that China Southern has merged with China Northern Airlines and Xinjiang Airlines, Beijing is an ideal hub to link the airline markets in central south and northwest China, as well as key International routes.<\/p>\n<p>China Southern Airlines currently operates its own terminal at Capital Airport in Beijing and the construction of its second terminal will give it two hubs at this ever-expanding aviation field.<\/p>\n<p>Among its 18 branches and sub-branches, the Beijing branch is China Southern's largest and most important.<\/p>\n<p>Liu said that China Southern, has high hopes that the Beijing branch would make the best out of the booming air travel market from the capital, as well as tap potential business related to The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>International passengers that passed through Beijing last year totaled about 10 million, topping all other airports in China. This figure represents 31.1 per cent of all international passengers handled by the nation's airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Southern Airlines is planning to spend more than US$134 million to upgrade its operations, including a new International terminal for its Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner, at Beijing Capital Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}